well, i'm pretty darn sure that i posted something a couple days ago telling you all about my time in hollywood, but it doesn't seem to be here now. i'm too tired to repost it, but maybe later i will. at any rate, i sent mom and dad an email earlier today letting them know a couple things, and i just pasted the bulk of it into here. so here you go:
(Helan's son Jamie got sick last night, so she was at the ER most of last night)
The doctor told Helan that Jamie had asthma, but she was a bit apprehensive about that. Nobody else in her family has ever had asthma. At any rate, she's gotten about 3hrs sleep, and she was taking him to see her family doctor today in town. I went with her, and I set up my bank account while she was at the doctor's. After that, I don't know what happened, because I got lost. Sort of. Helan told me if I got lost that I could take a bus back to Wallsend. Well, I opened my account, walked back to the doctor's office, and her car was gone. I went into the office and asked about them, and the receptionist told me she'd left only 5 or 10 minutes before. So I walked back down to the bank and I saw a car just like hers parked across the street. It even had the 2 carseats in the back. There was a parking receipt on the dash that said it was good until 1:30, and since it was only a few minutes before 1, I figured I'd stake out that intersection and see if she came back. About 1:20, the owners of the car came, and it wasn't her. So i went to a bus stop and got on a bus, got embarrassed because I didn't understand how to pay, then stayed on the bus for an hour and got dropped off right in front of my house. So now I'm checking my e-mail and having some lunch.
I got a little bit scared about going on the bus, but again, the driver was very nice, and because I'd already had some experience with being lost on buses from being in LA, I was okay.
It was so hot yesterday, but today is almost perfect. It keeps threatening to rain, and there's a breeze, and helan and the kids are wearing long sleeves, but it's perfect for me. I think it was around 80 degrees. helan's dad told me it was awful last week, up around 45Celsius, which is around 110 fahrenheit.
Renee (the only other female student here) seems very nice, and hopefully she and i can go shopping together sometime this week. helan told me she'll walk with me to the uni (university) sometime this week so I know the route. There's a path i can take to get there, and it takes about half an hour to walk, or i can pay renee for petrol (gas) and she can drive me if our schedules coincide, or i can take the bus (i only have to pay half price since i'm a student, but it's still AUD$14 a week), or i may still get a bike.
i'm already getting an accent. i can actually feel my mouth and my tongue twisting different ways when i say things, and before i speak a word i'm consciously trying to figure out whether to say it in an american or australian accent. sometimes i'm purposely doing it australian, sometimes it just comes out that way. and i'm adjusting to words here and there. for example:
the cafeteria style of eating lunch doesn't exist here, at schools or anywhere. they thought it was so cool that we have cafeterias at school, "like in the movies". Apparently they just have this little window where you walk up, poke your head in and ask for a sandwich and they hand it to you, then you go off to the playground and eat. anyway, now i can't remember what it is they call that, but it's not cafeteria. and then there's petrol instead of gas (It's AUD$1.19 here, so that would be a little less than a dollar at home) and a bunch of other little things.
i haven't seen a single animal yet, except for one that was all mangled on the side of the road, but i couldn't tell what it was. oh, and there's a dead cockroach upstairs. but sometimes i can hear a cookaburra in a tree not far away. at least i think that's what it is.
well, i guess that's all for now.
yeah, no i definitely remember posting about hollywood. i was excited to tell brian that when i was on the set of gilmore girls, the tour guide told us that the HS building used in that show is the same building used in all 5 Police Academy movies. It's amazing how many times on set is reused over and over in different movies. there's one from Casablanca that is virtually the same, and that street has been used in movies like Annie, Road to Perdition, the famous Spiderman kissing scene, Friends, ER, The Mask, Something's Gotta Give, and a ton of other stuff. Oh yeah, and I also told how this one street on the set of Gilmore Girls is the same one used in the last Seinfeld episode. It's where they witness the mugging. And the courthouse there is the one used where they go to jail.
And I took a photo with the flying ford anglia from the 2nd harry potter movie, and the batman cars, and i saw a couple actors and actresses, i was on some tv sets, i took photos inside Central Perk (which is going to the smithsonian in a couple months) and i talked about how the whole Warner Brothers lot just makes me think of Animaniacs. The Animaniacs live in the WB water tower, and in the cartoon there's a fat security guard. It really is just like the cartoon, with fat security guard included. It was so cool feeling like I was in a cartoon.
Okay, now i think that's all for now.
5 comments:
Steph, you did post all about your adventures in Hollywood, but you posted it in the comments section under my post. I'll cut it and post it in the main section.
... um... ignore what I said above. You're right about the Hollywood posting. I'll see if I can track it down at all.
I read the post about Hollywood last night before it mysteriously vanished. I busted a gut about the blister. Oh my gosh it was so gross, but I couldn't stop laughing. It splashed on your leg, "um... eeew."
heeheehee, yeah, i forgot about the blister story. i'll retell it for those that did not get to read it.
when i got back from my day of walking, i had a ginormous blister on my foot. i could actually feel it squishing around when i walked. it was like i was wearing a dr. scholl's thing, except it was my own skin.
it was somewhat difficult to get it to drain. i was having a hard time puncturing it. but when i finally did, it just exploded and splashed all down my leg.
yes, this story is gross, but not as bad as carrie's phlegm story, so there.
oh yeah, and there was the radio interview, too. i don't think i told that. on my first day there, i was out walking and somebody from the local radio station came up to me and asked something to put on air. they were doing a survey. the question was: what is a more polite way that you have heard or said of saying farting? I said tooting.
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